I'm tired of science reporting overselling technology. They are starting with the idealized outcome: "this film lets you turn glasses into night vision!" When the reality is far from that. New technologies in development should be framed in terms of the goals and applications, but then establish more grounded facts of where the state of the art is, the proof of concept that exists, and the state that the technology is currently in.
Who cares about night vision. Unless I missed a whole lot of development in physics, the ability to passively shift frequencies from outside to inside of visible range is the cool thing. I'd like to wear this material during the day, possibly with a visible light attenuator in front. The world may look different in beautiful or practically important ways when viewed at wavelengths outside our visual range, and we won't know how much until we start actually seeing them as we move about.
Exactly; the article more or less obfuscates what the present proof of concept looks like. After opening with this dream of what sounds like an entirely passive system you could just select as a coating on your next Zenni Optical order, It makes no mention of current power requirements or how much space everything else takes up.
Would it fit in a Vision Pro? Is it currently 75 pounds of equipment spread over a test bench? The article is useless on these questions.
It's a selection/survivor bias going on too. The public doesn't want to read about some incremental gain in some subfield they have no expertise in. People interested in those are reading the journals and preprints and mailing lists and such.
Unfortunately, that means what typically makes it to widely shared mainstream science news is the clickbait sensationalist marketing hype. Sober analysis isn't good for TikTok...
Agreed! I migrated from Manjaro to EOS after Manjaro broke packages and installations for the second time in a couple years, and my experience has been rock solid with EOS.
It's so ridiculous we can't see a history of songs played. I've been complaining about Spotify's lack of UX improvement for years.
Managing or finding playlists on mobile is a nightmare. There's no organization or folders on mobile (despite being on desktop). Searches are always sluggish, even when searching downloaded songs or playlists.
While the UI is not my favorite, I can see a history of my songs played. On android, click on home, click your avatar (top left). A menu should slide out with "Listening history" in it.
I think the promise of utility and ease of use of AI will bring people back. They will see it get better and better, see other people using it effectively, hear from friends saying "it's gotten even better".
Sure, they might continue to have a bad experience here and there and be turned off of it for a while. But I am certain people will periodically come back to try.
This video essay about Bo Burnam was very interesting, and gave me a lot more context to his recent movie Inside. I enjoyed the movie a lot, but it had a lot more depth in the messaging than I even initially thought. I wasn't aware of a lot of his work prior, but he has been pretty consistent with his messaging throughout most of his career underlying the veil of humor.
He once said very clearly and seriously, "if you can live your life without an audience, do it."
I'm sure Tom experienced lots of the unfavorable aspects of the attention (and perhaps scrutiny) he garnered.
What I would like are networked displays that make it trivial to throw something from one device onto a nearby display. Seamless switching, extending, and duplicating across the various displays.
It's been something like 5 years with no significant improvement to UX and library management. Loading your library is clunky and slow. Playlists are a nightmare to manage because you can't create any folders or organization.
I'm so annoyed with Spotify, but my library of 5k songs is tied up there, and I'm not a big fan of the alternatives that tend to be missing artists I want. It's so time-consuming to try to collect my own personal library of all this music.
If anyone has suggestions or reccs for ways to migrate from Spotify, I'm open to options.
> Playlists are a nightmare to manage because you can't create any folders or organization
The desktop app on Mac allows for folder creation. While not looking very hard, I wasn't able to find the same functionality on iOS. Would be a nice addition to iOS if it is not available.
I should specify that the folder limitation seems to only be on the mobile app. There's no point in organizing with for folders if I can't use them on mobile where I primarily use spotify.
This is basically why I have been using Figma for my resume. It makes it possible to break things into components that make it easy to make many different versions and adjust styling across all of them.
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